The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Sterksel Formation Abbreviation St Parent unit Meuse Group Child units Bocholt Member, Lommel Member Lithological description Coarse, gravely sands deposited by the River Rhine attracted into the Roer Valley Graben by its renewed sinking. In Belgium two Members must...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Oostwinkel Formation Abbreviation Ow Parent unit Schelde Group Child units Lithological description Sandy, loamy fine sandy and peaty-loamy deposits of a meandering river system. The sandy layers contain locally Corbicula fluminalis and Theodoxus fluviatilis. Age Upper Pleistocene, Eemian. Thickness...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Weelde Formation Abbreviation We Parent unit Kempen Group Child units Rijkevorsel Member, Beerse Member, Turnhout Formation Lithological description It consists of an alternation of clayey and sandy deposits. Age Thickness Area of occurrence Type locality Alternative names Authors Bogemans,...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Bocholt Member Abbreviation StB Parent unit Sterksel Formation Child units Lithological description A lower hornblende rich member is underlaying the Bocholt plain, Belgian part of the Roer Valley Graben. Age Mostly post-Jaramillo Early Pleistocene. Thickness Area of occurrence Lower...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Eeklo Formation Abbreviation El Parent unit Schelde Group Child units Dendermonde Member, Oostakker Member, Eke Member Lithological description The Formation consists of all fluvial and fluvio-periglacial sediments in the infill of the Flemish Valley ( Fig.2.) and the Coastal...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Rijkevorsel Member Abbreviation WeR Parent unit Weelde Formation Child units Lithological description A clayey-sandy micaceous complex. Vegetation remains and wood fragments are quite common but occur in rather small amounts. Age Probably Tiglian (TC3); Lower Pleistocene. Thickness Common thickness...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Lommel Member Abbreviation StL Parent unit Sterksel Formation Child units Lithological description Attracted by the antithetic down warping along the Rauw Fault, Rhine sands were deposited in a deep southern bend and cover the western part of the Kempen....
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Dendermonde Member Abbreviation ElD Parent unit Eeklo Formation Child units Lithological description Consists of gravelly coarse sand layers to gravel layers with boulders. Locally cryoturbations are present. The gravel is mainly composed of rounded flint, flint fragments, quartz grains,...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Beerse Member Abbreviation WeB Parent unit Weelde Formation Child units Lithological description A dominantly sandy facies characterised by peat layers and cryoturbations. Age Probably Tiglian (TC4); Lower Pleistocene. Thickness Up to 3m. Area of occurrence In the vicinity of...
The information on this page is a summary description. The full formal description is available here: Zutendaal Formation Abbreviation Zd Parent unit Meuse Group Child units Winterslag Member Lithological description Sediments from the Meuse when diverted to the northwest, depositing large fans covering the Kempen Plateau. Coarse aggrading gravel, considered fluvio-glacial with ice-rafted blocks, heavily...
